Petco Park

This guide to Petco Park in San Diego opens on January 14, 2002, when the city's deputy city manager walked into the offices of the city's own pension fund and asked it, not a bank, to lend roughly one hundred seventy million dollars toward building the ballpark. It follows the legal red flags outside lawyers raised, the fund's board that never quite said yes or no, and the years afterward when city hall kept skimming money it owed its own workers' retirement system. You'll hear how the New York Times later described San Diego over this. Look toward left field at the old brick corner of the Western Metal Supply Company building, built in 1909 as a wagon and blacksmith supply house, which the entire stadium was designed around.